Exploration/Settlement of NA
An imagined river passage through North America that Europeans believed would make travel between Europe and Asia faster and more efficient.
a. Northwest Passage
b. agrarian
c. currency
Northwest Passage
Describing a person who owns and cultivates a small farm.
a. yeoman
b. debtor
c. representative
The complete ownership or control of a resource or industry.
a. investment
b. influx
c. monopoly
monopoly
An unofficial British policy of not enforcing rules and regulations in the colonies.
a. tax
b. salutary neglect
c. trial by jury
salutary neglect
A person who worked to end slavery during the 1700s and 1800s.
a. infringe
b. amend
c. abolitionist
abolitionist
A system of money.
a. monetary economy
b. mutiny
c. currency
currency
Describing a Christian church that separated from the Catholic Church.
a. assembly
b. Parliament
c. Protestant
Protestant
To grant or transfer.
a. asset
b. cede
c. influx
cede
unbearable
a. trial by jury
b. militia
c. intolerable
intolerable
To change or add to a law or document.
a. infringe
b. amend
c. assemble
amend
Relying chiefly on agriculture and farming.
a. elusive
b. agrarian
c. depletion
agrarian
In Great Britain, a group made up of representatives and the king or queen that makes the laws for the country.
a. denomination
b. Parliament
c. assembly
Parliament
A system of law in which prior court decisions carry greater weight than codes and statutes.
a. investment
b. commerce
c. common law
common law
A representative to the legislature in colonial Virginia or Maryland.
a. Burgess
b. quarter
c. proclamation
burgess
To intrude on someone’s rights or possessions.
a. treason
b. compliance
c. infringe
infringe
A system in which a worker agrees to work for an employer for a certain amount of time in exchange for training or payment in land or goods at the end of the agreed time period.
a. capitalism
b. cash crop
c. indentured servant
indentured servant
Private ownership of people.
a. chattel slavery
b. cargo
c. inhumane
chattel slavery
Referring to a group of people who share a similar culture that is often handed down from one generation to the next.
a. lenient
b. smuggle
c. ethnic
ethnic
A disloyal act against one’s country, often by helping an enemy.
a. encrypted
b. treason
c. mercenary
treason
A type of organization in which two related parts work together.
a. federal
b. bicameral system
c. Parliament
bicameral system
An agreement for self-government signed by the Pilgrims on the ship Mayflower.
a. Mayflower Compact
b. banish
c. plantation
Mayflower Compact
To gain possession of.
a. cargo
b. procure
c. tropical lattitudes
procure
a. lenient
b. smuggle
c. ethnic
lenient
A soldier paid to fight for a country or a cause that they are not native to or in support of.
a. treason
b. self-determination
c. mercenary
mercenary
Relating to a system of government in which the national government shares power with other levels of government, such as the states; can also refer to national government.
a. federal
b. bicameral system
c. monarchy
federal